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Re:Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How... by swat535 on Sunday January 05, 2020 @08:03PM (#21965572)
I wish Toronto, Canada would pay such salaries.. Our COL is just as high, yet the median salary range for SWE is ~80k. Buying a house in TO proper is ~1.5M at the moment..

Honestly, folks in SV don't realize how good they have it.

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Re:Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How... by longtimegoogler on Sunday January 05, 2020 @08:22PM (#21965659)
In comparison, The median SWE salary is around ~123K in SV with a median home price in Mountain View of ~1.6m.

IMO, there are better options than SV. I would much rather be working in an area like Austin with a much more reasonable COL with a relatively small drop in median salary.

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Re:Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How... by Infinitesimus on Sunday January 05, 2020 @08:39PM (#21965727)
> The median SWE salary is around ~123K

A lot of the wealth is SV isn't from reported base salaries but from the issued company stocks (see levels.fyi for a subset )

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